At age 4, Garcia lost two thirds of his right middle finger when his brother cut it off with an ax. Depending on what version of the story you believe, either he was steadying wood while his brother chopped it as a chore, when he inadvertently put his finger in the way, or he and his brother were playing ‘chicken’ with the ax and Jerry lost.
Long as we’re discussing missing fingers, there’s also Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Mordecai ‘Three Fingers’ Brown, who lost part of two fingers to farm machinery.
Rax and Arby’s had a long-standing competitive feud in my hometown years back. Rax was on the North side, off the ramp from the only major highway to cut through town (US-33), while Arby’s was on the south side, which was sort of the shopping district (small town, so read: where Wal-Mart, Kroger, and JCPenney were) Rax died out years ago and the building was converted into a bank. For years Arby’s was the only place to get an I-guess-you-could-classify-this-as-roast-beef-on-a-technicality sandwich.
Imagine my surprise when, returning two years ago, Rax had returned, in a new, albeit incredibly nondescript building (think small brick building with blue roof that just says “Rax” on the side). I was all set to go in to see if it was anything like the Rax of my youth (I vaguely remember some obnoxious alligator/crocodile mascot for the Kids meals that, was considerably more impressive to my 8 year old psyche than a stylized cowboy hat).
My mother quickly stopped me and said, “Oh, no, don’t go there. I ate there for lunch the other day and ended up having to take the rest of the day off to sit on the toilet.”
Glad to know they haven’t changed anything.
Oh, and to respond to OP, I agree with some other posts here, I don’t think what they use at Arby’s (or Steak & Shake, or Taco Bell, or Rax) is really cheese. Probably still isn’t kosher, whatever it is, but it certainly isn’t what the writers of the Pentateuch had in mind when they made the dairy rules. You might weasel out on a technicality.
